Brain lesions no MS symptoms

[Dawn_Lynn]

HI - my husband and I started working out and trying to lose the first part of December.  After working out, I would sometimes get a headache that could last all day, but would respond with taking a couple of Advil.  Ater about six weeks of these headaches, I went to my doctor and she ordered an MRI.  The results came back yesterday and she said that I have brain lesions consisitent with MS.  However, I have had absolutely no other symptoms related to MS.  What else could it be?

I have a lumbar puncture on Monday . . . .how long until I find out the results?

Thanks!

Dawn

[fazer]

I was wondering if anyone can help me I am a 51 yr old female who started having numbness and tingling similar to an electrical shock particularly up my spine and into the bottom of neck the shock feeling that is. The numbness is mostly on the left side and around my mouth. I went to my GP and he sent me for an MRI which showed that I have 9 lesions, is this a lot. I don't get in to neuro till may and I am currently feeling very poorly. tired all the time and find I am having lots of trouble with memory loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Faye

[doni54]

Hi Dawn, and welcome to the forum!!  This is a wonderful place with great members.

Laura's explanation was great!!  I hadn't read her journal about this, but it is the perfect description!!

If you want to learn more about MS check out our health pages.  Just click on the icon in the upper right hand side of the page.  There are some really great and informative articles here.

Hope you will visit us often, we would all enjoy getting to know you better.  I wish you the best, let us know how things go for you with your LP.

doni

[opie74]

Hi,

It was about the 29th or 30 lesion that finally gave me symptoms.  Lesions can also be cause my vascular problems and migreains.  I was told for YEARS that mine were fomr migrains.  They were not.  Don't just accept the Easy answer.  

I hope that you get a definate answer soon!
Opie

[Lulu54]

Hi Dawn,
I posted the following in my journal back in December - maybe it will help you to understand how you can have lesions but feel fine....

A Shot in the Dark...
When I saw my neuro for my MS diagnosis, he gave me an excellent analogy of what was happening in my brain with my lesions and my symptoms and why it was so important to start on a disease modifying drug now rather than wait.  Here is the lesson he shared with me -

Look around the room and find a wall that has a light switch on it. Now imagine what is inside that wall leading to the switch - there are wires but there is also a lot of other space that controls nothing.

Imagine you have a gun and start firing into that wall.  How many shots can you take before you actually hit some of that wiring in the wall and turn the power to the switch off?

Our brains and those pesky MS lesions are the same.  Not all of those lesions are wired to parts of our brain that control switches to our body functions.  But the more lesions we have the greater the chance of one hitting the critical wiring and flipping a switch.  

Taking the DMD's doesn't take away the symptoms we already have, but it is our current best hope of stopping future lesions from developing and turning our lights out.  


I hope that helps.  AS for the time on the LP results, expect to wait a couple weeks because it is a lengthier test to perform in the lbav.  MAKE SURE they take blood at the same time as your LP otherwise the sample will be of no use in the diagnosis.

My best,
Lulu